Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Able Seaman W. E. Townley, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (200534 W. E. Townley, A.B. H.M.S. Fox:); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (200534. W. E. Townley, A.B. H.M.S. Fox.); British War Medal 1914-20 (200534 W. E. Townley A.B. R.N.); together with a copy 1914-15 Star and copy Victory Medal 1914-19 added for display purposes, good very fine (5) £240-£280

Walter Edward Townley was born in Bristol on 15 May 1882. A labourer, he joined H.M.S. Impregnable as Boy 2nd Class on 30 September 1903, serving aboard a variety of vessels and shore-based establishments before joining the Royal Fleet Reserve at Devonport on 24 August 1913. Posted to H.M.S. Canopus from 2 May 1914 to 28 December 1916, Townley was thus present at the first two major naval engagements of the Great War, the Battle of the Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands. Transferring to the cruiser H.M.S. Theseus on 29 December 1916, he was demobilised on 25 July 1919.

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